Your NEJM Group Today: Dark Urine & Weakness Case / COVID-19 & Birth Outcomes / Hospitalist & Cardiologist Opportunities

By the Editors

Take a look at today's highlights from NEJM Group:

NEJM Primary Care/Hospitalist Page: Case record: A 72-year-old woman who had undergone mechanical mitral-valve and aortic-valve replacements 25 years earlier presented to the hospital with weakness and dark urine. Cardiac ultrasonography revealed normal biventricular function, no pericardial effusion, and a possible clot on the mitral valve. Read more, and find out the diagnosis, at the link below.

NEJM Journal Watch Women's Health: Among pregnancies of SARS-CoV-2–positive mothers, preterm births were slightly increased and a small percentage of infants tested positive, especially those with COVID-19 infections near parturition.

NEJM CareerCenter:

1. Hospital medicine: AtlantiCare in New Jersey is seeking outstanding internists to join its growing Hospital Medicine Division.

2. Cardiology: Rush University Medical Center, located in downtown Chicago, invites applications for the position of Clinical Division Chief of Cardiology and Co-Director of the Heart Service Line.